In the past two weeks, I seem to have lost at LEAST on friend on WB due to her feeling she was targetted because of her beliefs, not her spiritual beliefs, her every-day-living-in-this-world beliefs. Some of the things that have been said frankly appalled me and I have been surprised and hurt to find that I am not as well regarded as I thought. 

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One of my other friends has disappeared off the face of the earth!!!  She is in Australia, where the terrible flooding is going on.  She blogged recently, and emailed me several times that day.....then NOTHING for over 2 weeks.  She said in her last email that she was having trouble with her computer, and it's internet connection is too slow/low/don't know WHAT,  so all I can do is continue to send copies of my emails to her outside email account.  It concerns me greatly that she hasn't been on in over 2 weeks......very uncommon for her.  So I worry and wait.

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Sometimes people are going to have problems with each other, some because there seem to be too many people with set opinions that they do NOT want questioned, or commented on.  There are definitely people on this site with political views that may not be popular, but those views are THEIRS, and while people can/should speak of their own experience not everyone is open to hearing/understanding about those beliefs.  All of this was discussed endlessly in a couple of forums and blogs.

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One of the less fun things that I experienced was one blog that was a rant (and I TOTALLY support that) one of the things "ranted" on was people using colored text, the upshot of THIS blog was that I was labelled "rude and fucking stupid".  I totally understand that saying those things was just  one of our members ranting, and I took some of it on because I DO use hot aqua for text, and I always make the type 12pt because I have eye issues and I'm certain I'm not alone in needing a bigger font so I can read it.  If the text is hard for me to read, and the black on grey just doesn't work for me, so I highlight the text so I can read it.  That shouldn't be judged by those who do NOT apparently want to interact with those who disagree.  OK, disagree, move on without nasty hurting words.

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Then there came a couple of Forum posts that I took part in the discussion.  The upshot of THAT adventure was being called a solf-polytheist, and some of my run on paragraphs were taken apart sentence by sentence and it was pointed out to me just how wrong or flawed my thinking proceeses ARE.  That this happened on Witchbook. is uncommon and totally unexpected by me.  While I KNOW mentally that no one was trying to hurt me or that I was being targetted in said Forum thread.  That said, some of this hurt my feelings VERY much!!!  Now that may be too childish for me to be here, even though I have done my very best to help this site grow in tolerance of those who do NOT have the same spiritual leanings or political leanings.  It doesn't MATTER that the pain and confusion I experienced was NOT their intent.......it doesn't matter, I think it is immature in the extreme to take one's sentences apart and, having taken them out of their context, go about "addressing" only a small PART of what was said. 

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Ok, so maybe I am too tender to LIVE!!  I have seen WB grow to over 1300 members, I have seen the spambots try and get pulverized by our kick ass moderators.  And I must say that when this site was smaller, there never would have been this kind of picking people appart.  These are MY VIEWS, not yours, not anyone else's and I alone am responsible for my posts, whether they are in a blog, a comment, or a thread in the Forums.

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While I have  been on Witchbook.net my whole spiritual life has brought me to a wholly different place than I was BEFORE WB came to be.  Witchbook.net may well have saved my life, literally, and more than once.  I celebrate the People on this site, and I particularly watch the words I use when I post ANYTHING on this site, I try to find something positive to say and I'm pretty certain I have NOT targetted anyone here, nor have I been nasty to others while commenting on anything they may have written.  I believe that this is a MOST IMPORTANT gift we give each other on a daily basis here on Witchbook.  The willingness to "let" others have their issues, ideas, attitudes, spiritual leanings, hell, even their political ideas without trying to explain to them just how wrong they really are!!!  To me, this smacks of Xtianity type of response to an individual (and we are ALL individuals) who does NOT take their word as gospel.  For those who simply MUST have everyone agree on everything they say, I say:  GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!

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Thank you for listening, yet again People.  Talk to me.

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